http://wiki.edsight.org/ 2026-05-26T02:15:36+00:00 http://wiki.edsight.org/ http://wiki.edsight.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-06-20T00:53:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=carol_dweck&rev=1750380822&do=diff Carol Dweck Biography Carol Dweck is a renowned educational psychologist whose work has significantly advanced understanding of motivation, intelligence, and personality. She pursued her undergraduate degree in psychology at Barnard College and earned her graduate studies at Yale University, where she developed her foundational research in cognitive psychology and learning theory. Mentored by notable scholars such as Dr. Allan Wagner and Dr. Robert Rescorla, she deepened her expertise in cogni… text/html 2025-07-31T23:47:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=cyril_lodowic_burt&rev=1754005622&do=diff Cyril Lodowic Burt (Sir) (1883-1971) Biography Cyril L. Burt was born in 1883 in Snitterfield, Warwickshire, England, and grew up in a family with strong academic roots, as his father was a family physician. He excelled academically during his school years, earning scholarships to prestigious institutions like Christ’s Hospital and Jesus College, Oxford. Originally intending to pursue medicine like his father, Burt eventually shifted his focus toward psychology, driven by an interest in intell… text/html 2025-06-16T13:45:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=alfred_binet&rev=1750081549&do=diff Alfred Binet (1857-1911) Biography Alfred Binet was a French psychologist known for his pioneering work in intelligence testing. He initially studied law and medicine before focusing on experimental psychology. Binet developed the first intelligence test, the Binet-Simon Scale, to assess children's mental age compared to their chronological age. He emphasized individual differences in intelligence and qualitative observations. Binet's work laid the foundation for modern psychometric testing an… text/html 2026-04-15T08:29:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=francis_bacon&rev=1776241789&do=diff Francis Bacon (1561–1626) Biography Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount Saint Albans, was an English philosopher, statesman, lawyer, and essayist whose Great Instauration (1620) and Novum Organum (1620) laid the conceptual foundations of the modern scientific method and made him, in the phrase of his biographers, a text/html 2026-04-18T15:07:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=hypatia_of_alexandria&rev=1776524879&do=diff Hypatia of Alexandria (355–415 CE) Biography Hypatia was born in Alexandria, Egypt, probably around 355–375 CE, into the household of Theon — a famed mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher whom the tenth-century Suda Lexicon identifies as the last known teacher and member of the Museum of Alexandria, the great institution that housed the Library of Alexandria and served as the intellectual hub of the ancient Mediterranean world. The Museum was akin to a medieval university in its devotion … text/html 2026-04-20T00:54:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.edsight.org/doku.php?id=nguyen_van_huyen&rev=1776646495&do=diff Nguyễn Văn Huyên (1905–1975) Biography Nguyễn Văn Huyên was born on 16 November 1905 in Lai Xa village, Kim Chung commune, Hoài Đức district, Hà Tây province, into a family of modest scholar-official background under French colonial rule. In 1926 his family sent him to France to study, and over the following eight years he earned a Bachelor of Arts (1929) and a Bachelor of Laws (1931) at the Sorbonne, before making history on 17 February 1934 as the first Vietnamese to defend a doctoral thesis…